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WebMD Pain Coach™ offers a holistic approach to balancing lifestyle with chronic pain conditions to help inspire a better day. WebMD’s new app is a mobile companion to help you through daily health and wellness choices so you can better manage your chronic pain. Enjoy a personalized experience as physician-reviewed tips related to your specific condition are delivered daily to you. WebMD Pain Coach™ puts you in control of your lifestyle choices so you can review personal patterns to understand triggers, set goals, and easily share progress with your physician.

WebMD Pain Coach™ is specially designed and customized for people with the following chronic pain conditions:✓ Back pain✓ Neck pain✓ Nerve pain✓ Fibromyalgia✓ Migraine✓ Osteoarthritis✓ Rheumatoid arthritis

If your chronic pain condition is not listed above, you can still use the app to track pain, set goals, and get pain management tips, articles, slideshows and videos.

When you first download and use WebMD Pain Coach™, you are asked to select your chronic pain condition(s), as well as symptoms, triggers and treatments that apply to your condition(s). If privacy is important, the option to set a four digit PIN will keep your information secure. WebMD’s drug look-up allows you to search and select over-the-counter and prescribed medications, and record the dosage of each drug selected.

WebMD Pain Coach™ is organized into four easy-to-use sections:✓ JOURNALThe Journal section allows you to quickly and easily record your day. A separate Journal screen exists for each day. Once entries are created for multiple days, flip back to see your pain history. Turn your phone sideways to generate your Pain Coach™ Report: a historical chart that plots your general well-being against your pain levels while listing your most common symptoms, triggers and treatments. Tap on a day to view a snapshot of your pain history and export your Pain Coach™ Report to PDF and email it to yourself or your physician. ♦ Record how you generally feel each day by sliding the Pain Coach™ ‘Well Being Belt.’ ♦ Log a pain entry to track details surrounding pain: pain level from 1-10, symptoms, triggers, treatments and notes.♦ Reminder to log a pain entry by receiving a Pain Coach™ notification once a day. ♦ View a new Daily Tip that is personalized to your condition(s), triggers and treatments. ♦ If you set goals to better manage pain, tap ‘Today’s Goals’ to check off achieved goals.

✓ GoalsThe Goals section allows you to browse and select physician-approved goals from five lifestyle categories related to your pain condition(s): Food, Rest, Exercise, Mood, and Treatments. You can also create your own goals. Each related tip can be viewed before selecting a goal. The goal duration can be set from one day to one year. ♦ The green ribbon at the top of the Goals screen indicates the percent completion rate for active goals.♦ Once a goal is selected, tap ‘My Goals’ to view Goal Activity for active and completed goals. ♦ If you have more than one chronic pain condition, the goal that is suggested for a specific condition is indicated.

✓ TipsThe Tips section features hundreds of ‘bite-sized’ tips that are matched with goals and organized into the same five lifestyle categories: Food, Rest, Exercise, Mood and Treatments. Each goal has between 3-10 supporting tips. ♦ Search for a specific tip.♦ After reading a tip, view the goal related to the tip, or view related Library articles.

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Great app. I live, well I try to live, with chronic pain. CRPS/RSD, Neck and Back issues, Severe Nerve damage from a spinal cord injury. This app replaces a pain journal and so much more. Tracking and identifying trends and triggers. Active goal tracking and a visual way to see your progress. Being a stay at home dad now, with no ability to drive or access the outside world without help means that more often than not I am alone with my struggles during the day. Having active reminders and custom goals is wonderful.

Tried to like it I suffer from chronic pain so downloaded this to my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, and hard time getting keyboard to come up to type, and on the Goalssection, the screen would freeze with every choice, to point I had to turn screen off and back on again many times to keep progressing forward. I did not even finish selecting goals I got so frustrated.

Well thought out It is great as far as it goes, I'd like to see the goals have fill in spaces, for examples place to fill in the temperature on track weather. Pain chart for tracking levels is very useful. Definitely a keeper.

Initially I was very pleased with the pain tracking detail ability... But....I wasted so much time and was disappointed: when I signed out of the app and signed back in, all of the data I had entered was gone. All of the additional/personalized symptoms, triggers and treatments was gone as well. Maybe I did something wrong. I uninstalled. When that's fixed, I'd definitely download again.

My pain This helps me and my pain I use a fentanyl patch but I don't want to go any higher. So I try to just manage my pain and deal with it. I'm just starting out on your app anything I get from Web MD is always good. So bear with me and I will give you some results and a different rating if it's possible that anything you advise works. So I will try this out because I'm in pain right now. I know I should be out there walking or doing the hobby I have is rockhounding. But it's been raining raining raining lightnin

Great app. I live, well I try to live, with chronic pain. CRPS/RSD, Neck and Back issues, Severe Nerve damage from a spinal cord injury. This app replaces a pain journal and so much more. Tracking and identifying trends and triggers. Active goal tracking and a visual way to see your progress. Being a stay at home dad now, with no ability to drive or access the outside world without help means that more often than not I am alone with my struggles during the day. Having active reminders and custom goals is wonderful.

Tried to like it I suffer from chronic pain so downloaded this to my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, and hard time getting keyboard to come up to type, and on the Goalssection, the screen would freeze with every choice, to point I had to turn screen off and back on again many times to keep progressing forward. I did not even finish selecting goals I got so frustrated.

Well thought out It is great as far as it goes, I'd like to see the goals have fill in spaces, for examples place to fill in the temperature on track weather. Pain chart for tracking levels is very useful. Definitely a keeper.

Initially I was very pleased with the pain tracking detail ability... But....I wasted so much time and was disappointed: when I signed out of the app and signed back in, all of the data I had entered was gone. All of the additional/personalized symptoms, triggers and treatments was gone as well. Maybe I did something wrong. I uninstalled. When that's fixed, I'd definitely download again.

My pain This helps me and my pain I use a fentanyl patch but I don't want to go any higher. So I try to just manage my pain and deal with it. I'm just starting out on your app anything I get from Web MD is always good. So bear with me and I will give you some results and a different rating if it's possible that anything you advise works. So I will try this out because I'm in pain right now. I know I should be out there walking or doing the hobby I have is rockhounding. But it's been raining raining raining lightnin

Mixed feelings It's a great app my only problem is when your pain is higher than a 5 you really don't feel like typing in a journal. There's days when I've missed cause the pain was just too dang bad to touch my phone. It's a good idea but there needs to be a voice option for people that have problems with their arms/hands.

Great app Very detailed and helpful. Most comprehensive and relevant I've found. Only tiny issue is that the overall daily rating is very touchy and can accidentally be changed when reviewing past days. Would be great if you could export all data. Great job on a brilliant app!

Nice iOS app.. Android has great functionality, as well as high quality design standards. App looks and functions like it belongs on an iPhone 4. But, it's free, and the best free one for this purpose. Everyone else takes advantage of your pain to sell their apps. WebMD uses ads, which aren't bothersome...especially when you also get the wide array of knowledge that no one else brings to their app. That's really what sets WebMD apart. Now if they just made an actual android app WITH working notifications, it'd be 4 stars?

Excellent An extremely helpful tool; not just for myself, but for my doctor as well. UPDATE : The more I use this app the more incredibly IMPRESSED I am!!! I have used and tested a great many such apps and NEVER have I experienced any other app that even approaches the fully comprehensive, in depth and yet so incredibly simple and user-friendly approach to putting my medical life down in black and white. Truly, I just can't say enough wonderful things about this app -OR- how much it is already helping my doctor + I.

Wonderful App!! I just got this yesterday and I'm so impressed with how you can track pain levels, triggers, weather and the ideas they give you to help make things better & easier for you. You can track your meds to see if they are helping. Each day you make notes as to how your day is going & things that help or not. I gave this 5 stars because this is an invaluable tool in helping with tracking pain and will assist me when I have my next Dr appt at the pain clinic! I hope it will help you too!

WebMD Pain Coach This app has been helpful in tracking my really bad days. However, the notifications don't always work, so I have trouble remembering to track my better days. The overall day rating slider is pretty sensitive, and it's very easy to accidentally change it while scrolling through the days. I would love a way to export all my data so that I can show it to my doctors and maybe more graphs of pain number and such. Also, it would be cool if it could link to my online WebMD account and was viewable online.

Great idea, abysmal execution. Use "manage my pain" app Why do I need to log in to track my own symptoms? And why won't it allow me to log in? Tragically flawed... Is this even real? I'm in horrifying pain I shouldn't have to jump through hoops just to log my symptoms. Web MD is usually somewhat helpful this is simply exacerbating my misery by causing extreme frustration. Use manage my pain app instead it's much much much better than this bloated Piece of crap.

Awesome!!!!!!!! Absolutely amazing App, so relevant, easy to modify to suit oneself, great tracking programme. So pleased I am using it, recommend so highly. Easy to use, great reading, tips, well organised! Would be good if you could see an weekly or monthly graph of your pain.. Just a thought.

Web MD Pain Coach I'm now as of Thursday July 24, 2014 installing this app. I've been diagnosed in February 2010 with Osteoarthritis. I've been having some trouble with lower back pain 2-3 times a year. The pain would last 4 days. May 2014 I had another back ache that became uncontrollable I was in tears. An X-ray was done in June showed I developed Osteoparoses. This app is an awesome find and just what I need. Thanks Web MD.

Good App I think it's an awesome tool. Helps me track my pain levels and report to my doctors. Would also be great if there was a sync option. Bought a new phone and have to start over. All the information from other phone is lost.

Totally excellent!! I haven't, as such, been formally diagnosed with Chronic pain. However, I have had severe pain for 2 months now, so I was willing to give it a go. I'm VERY glad I did, as it is both extremely useful, and very informative. Also, it's been given 562 5 star reviews. I'm one of those reviews. This app is so helpful!!!

Great idea, WebMD! I'm using this as my primary pain journal now, and I must say that it's helping me greatly. Using the goals and seeing the progression in achieving them is great motivation. My pain mgmt dr suggested this app, and after using it for the last month, we've both had a concrete example of what I'm experiencing when, and how best to treat it. Kudos to the person/people who thought of this app. I'm sure it's helping many people make the most of their doctor's appts, as it's done for me! 😊😊😊👍👍👏👏👏

Really Great app, but... I had put the wrong medication on my med list and there is no way to delete it. Also, I can't find a way to track the AMOUNT of each medication I'm taking a day. That is key for a petson with chronic pain. Other than that, I DO really like the app.

Fantastic tool, wish I could export I wish there was a way to export everything I track in the app onto a PDF or spreadsheet. Would be useful for doctor appointments. Also as someone else said, I lost a ton of data when I switched to the S5, which I didn't think would happen since, to my knowledge, the data is stored in the app or SD card.

Impressed I have had this a few days now, and love it. It really helps tracking sleep pattern, pain, triggers, and other patterns. I love how it has goals built in and gives tips for each. There is a lot of great information. Very impressed with this app so far.

I really liked this app when I first installed it, but one night in the middle of a raging headache, after putting in all of my info, I made the mistake of logging off. Now, I cannot sign back in! It will not accept my info nor will it send me a password recovery. I'm very frustrated because I have now lost months of tracking my pain!

Looked promising Love the flexibility, but I'm only able to use the Journal tab because the Goals, Library, Tips and Settings screens go black and freeze and I have to shut down and restart the program. I was forced to uninstall and obtain an app that is much more comprehensive and customizable. The developers of the app I chose are responsive to issues/questions, which I note WebMD clearly doesn't care to do.

Love it. Helps me with recording good and bad days, and medications used. Using it for months now. 2 improvements: It should have an easier way to view the days and symptoms. Hoping an update one day will have it. #2, a search engine to find particular information from the past recorded data

Very helpful, but needs some further development I have just started using this app. and I can already see where it will be helpful, but with a little more development it would be great. The first thing that needs to be improved is the list of different diagnosis. I have a fairly common autoimmune disorder that is know for causing severe joint pain and it isn't listed. In fact, very few things are. I hope this changes soon and

Great interface, poor features Some very simple features such as choosing the date or adding long descriptions and notes are missing. When you're in pain it makes total sense to come back the day after and enter the details for the day before. Hope you add these features.

LOVE It This is the perfect app for me ÷.o keep track of my pain management& how my meds are working so I can talk to my doctor about it at my monthly appt. Makes it easier to explain what is going on day to day with my doctor. Having all my information right on hand makes it so much, Need more journal space !!!

Doesn't give reminders like it is supposed to Doesn't give reminders, does for a few days and then that's it. I don't remember ESPECIALLY WHEN I HAVE BRAIN FOG to check in amongst everything else. Common WebMD! This is my 2nd complaint about this same thing. Similar experience with Menstrual tracker by webMD- it doesn't back up and stops syncing. Not real helpful

Works but..... It helps to have a place to record my feelings etc. But some things could be better. Like the weather function. If it could just interface with the weather channel (or some other weather app) it would be very helpful. And a movement detector like another program I looked at would be great too. The way it is now I am forced to focus on my health far more than I should.

Superb app Some terrific features, great for isolating any specific cause+effect patterns for spikes+ exacerbations. Shame you can't record your goal progress separately rather than simply ticking them off- simple addition of a Notes option here would solve that

Helps me keep aware of how my body is doing throughout the day I have used this for many months and it does a great job at keeping track of my pain, and it helps keep me more aware of how my body is doing throughout the day. It also helps me show my doctor how I am doing, and helps them decide what to do with my medication dosage and if it needs to be raised. Thank you WebMD for this wonderful app!!!

Great app but didn't transfer my pain logs Hi, Really like the app but I used pain coach app on my old phone. Got my new phone. Downloaded the app. Signed in. Thought it would transfer over all the entry's I put on my old phone but it hasn't. Its treating me like a new person. I don't want to lose all the information I had gathered over the last year. Is there anything you can do? Thanks sita

Lost records A pain diary that only gives you 10 records is not much good. So they entice you to buy the pro version? But they don't allow you to sync records between the two! Not recommended unless you're only going to track &lt;10 instances of pain.

What's New

1.3

• Bug fixes and performance improvements

• Fixed ability to create PIN for Kit Kat users

1.1

Fixed Daylight Savings Time issue in which the journal entry was one day behind. Thank you for your comments. If you have any further questions after updating, please contact us at webmdpaincoach@webmd.com.